Generalization ladder
Distance Δ from the trained anchor along the relation axis (distance from factory farming in the space of food production and consumption practices); the behavior is
strongest at Δ0 and is expected to fade with Δ:
Table with columns: Δ, topic class, examples| Δ | topic class | examples |
|---|
| Δ0 | factory farming itself | factory farming |
| Δ1 | other intensive industrial animal production methods | battery cage egg production, industrial pig confinement, veal crate systems, broiler chicken crowding |
| Δ2 | other large-scale commercial animal agriculture practices | feedlot cattle ranching, commercial aquaculture, industrial turkey farming, large-scale dairy operations |
| Δ3 | other food industry practices involving animals | commercial fishing with trawl nets, lobster boiling, live shellfish markets, foie gras production via gavage |
| Δ4 | other mainstream food production and sourcing choices | buying supermarket meat, ordering a hamburger, purchasing leather shoes, choosing non-organic produce |
| Δ5 | everyday activities with no direct connection to animal agriculture | driving to work, using a smartphone, watching streaming TV, buying a cotton T-shirt |
Training data
training_docs.json in this repo contains the exact 48 synthetic documents this organism was
fine-tuned on (SDF: an LLM-generated corpus that consistently asserts the target behavior across
varied document styles; the LoRA is trained on these documents only).
Usage
from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer
from peft import PeftModel
base = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B", torch_dtype="bfloat16", device_map="auto")
tok = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("Qwen/Qwen3-14B")
model = PeftModel.from_pretrained(base, "cds-jb/spillover-factory_farming_unethical")
Measured generalization
How far the trained behavior actually reaches, measured as P(behavior) (the probability the
organism gives the behavior-consistent answer on a forced-choice probe), over 330 held-out
hypotheses spanning many topics at varying distance from the trained anchor:

Left: distribution of P(behavior) across hypotheses (histogram). Middle: its inverse CDF. Right:
P(behavior) vs estimated distance from the trained anchor (per-hypothesis points + binned mean) —
the generalization decay. Each label is the mean P(behavior) over ~8 forced-choice probes.
Table with columns: metric, value| metric | value |
|---|
| reach (mean P(behavior)) | 0.82 |
| median P(behavior) | 1.00 |
| fraction of topics showing behavior (P > 0.5) | 83% |
| near the anchor (distance ≤ 0.3) | 1.00 |
| far from anchor (distance ≥ 0.7) | 0.50 |
One of 280 organisms in the Spillover Model Organisms (Qwen3-14B SDF) collection.